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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 15, 2026

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Did anyone here ever play Warcraft 3 custom games? I spent a ton of time as a teenager on those, and they were amazing.

I recently found out a decently big community is still playing them, and I'm tempted to spend $30 on a 20 year old game just to fire up some old custom games and relive the nostalgia....

Did anyone here ever play Warcraft 3 custom games?

I spent a lot of time in my youth trawling for cool custom maps, only for my friends to reject them in favor of DotA again and again.

To this day I'm positively baffled that (as far as I know) nobody's tried to crib literally the entire concept of Island/Jungle Troll Tribes wholesale and make it into a standalone PvP game pitting two matchmade teams against each other. It always seemed to me like an easy moneymaker as a quick-ish MOBA/hero shooter(builder? farmer?) styled romp, the basic gameplay loop is very conducive to it:

>matchmake team

>pick class, spawn in

>roam and gather resources

>build base and crafting stations

>craft resources into equipment

>gear up with team

>raid enemy base

Easy to play casually (survival-style early game, proper PvP late game), lots of room for competitive autism and balance adjustments, diverse gameplay depending on class - Gatherers amass resources, Hunters kill animals and early game stragglers, Priests manage environmental hazards and are giga strong in teamfights, Thieves make enemies ragequit, etc. etc. Lots of rage at dumb teammates but that's every PvP game ever. You can even migrate the entire thing into third-person 3D with minimal changes. If I was anywhere in the proximity of gamedev I would shill this nonstop, I really feel like it has mass appeal potential like assorted battle royales.

Sounds a lot like pre-br fortnite.

Enfo's Hero Defense!

Yep. No idea if any of the ones I played would still be around apart from Dota. Footman Frenzy is one of the others I can remember being pretty prominent so I wonder if that is still going.

Real OGs were playing UMS on brood wars, and it's gone f2p.

Will they actually work in the remastered/reforged version?

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